As a result of this rapid urbanization over the years, mega-cities expanded exponentially and new smaller cities also emerged.
One result of this rapid urbanization is that food insecurity, particularly access to safe and nutritious food, will increasingly be an urban problem [ 3].
The rapid increase in the number of street dwellers associated with this urbanization raise concern and warrants immediate government attention.
The criticality of this re-urbanization is evident according to a 2011 study, which shows that an earthquake with Mw = 7.25 on the Main Marmara Fault is expected to heavily damage or destroy 2 to 4%% of around 1,000,000 buildings in Istanbul with a population around 13 million, with 9 to 15%% of the buildings receiving medium damage and 20 to 34%% of the buildings damaged lightly (Erdik 2013).
The art show portion was organized by Hou Hanru, who was the curator behind the 2000 Shanghai Biennale.. "The creation of a museum like this is part of the urbanization process," he said.
All cities have net migration effects of their degree of urbanization, this is an equal effect in 12 cities but there are heterogeneous effects in 6 cities (cities 2, 7,13, 14, 16 and 22).
This striking level of urbanization and urban agglomeration in LAC is a challenge for the cities that were not prepared to absorb such population growth.
As a consequence of this process of massive urbanization, many citizens live in informal neighborhoods with substandard housing and urban services, as cities have not been able to meet the needs of their fast-growing populations.
In contexts of rapid urbanization, this paradigm shift is particularly challenged since social and environmental needs often come into conflict.
Because this city is characterized over long historical eras by patterns of harmonious coexistence of ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity, religion was never the predominant character of this diversity, but urbanization".
